Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Korad

Korad: a deserted city
in Barsoom’s southwest hemisphere, “supposed
to have been a center of commerce and culture known as Korad. It had been built
upon a beautiful, natural harbor, landlocked by magnificent hills. The little
valley on the west front of the city, she explained, was all that remained of
the harbor, while the pass through the hills to the old sea bottom had been the channel through which the shipping passed up
to the city's gates.”(PM XI)

Its ruins are now bordered by“numerous brilliantly colored and
strangely formed wild flowers dotted the ravines and from the summit of the
first hill I saw still other hills stretching off toward the north, and rising,
one range above another, until lost in mountains of quite respectable
dimensions; though I afterward found that only a few peaks on all Mars exceed
four thousand feet in height; the suggestion of magnitude was merely relative.”(PM IV)

'Jasoom' is the title given to our Earth by the Martians of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels.

This blog serves as a forum to discuss CLASSIC pen-n-paper, role playing games. Featured herein are pages from the author's pnp game written and copyrighted in 1990. RED PLANET was based upon ERB's Barsoom novels that are now within the Public Domain . . .

PM = A Princess of MarsGM = The Gods of MarsWM = The Warlord of MarsTMM = Thuvia, Maid of MarsCM = The Chessmen of MarsMM = Mastermind of Mars

This blog is a product of fan fiction. Most artwork on this site is the sole property of the respective artist or copyright holder and reproduced here out of admiration or respect. Much of this art work and more is available at Damon Orellz excellent blog, The ART of BARSOOM. If your artwork appears on this site, and you want it taken down, send me a comment.

About Me

“I know that you are interested and that you believe, and I know that the world, too, is interested, though they will not believe for many years; yes, for many ages, since they cannot understand. Earth men have not yet progressed to a point where they can comprehend the things that I have written.”
Forward to The Gods of Mars by E.R.B.